Is a person who our sympathy commands”
which dealt with political topics; whilst the very unpoetical subject of the Irish Land Acts was considered at great length, and in a rather heavy style, in a parody which appeared in Kottabos for 1881, over the signature M.
The Indefeasible Title.
I’ll sing you all a song that was made by an honest pate,
Of a fine old Irish gentleman, who mortgaged his estate
To a bluff old English mortgagee, who swore he couldn’t wait,
But would sell the lands at any price and at an early date,
Like a business-like old Englishman, all of the olden time.
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(Nine verses omitted.)